Hooray! I knew there was a good reason for this long weekend. I mean, naturally I would rather have been swimming up to a bar in a Caribbean resort, or gallivating in gay Paris, but due to an unfortunately incapacitated dog (she overdid the swimming and enthusiastic jumping around at Point Petre yesterday, I think), …
Category Archives: freelancing
Update on EditQuest
I’ve decided to take the advice of a few people whose opinions I respect and keep the dream of EditQuest alive. Since I can’t fight back by fixing the accursed original site and ridding it of someone’s terrible intentions, I’ve taken some of the images and all the text and transported it here (thank goodness …
Bathtub Ruminating
A short day at the clinic today, which has such an effect on me that the relief is palpable every Tuesday night, the same way dread is palpable every Sunday evening at the prospect of the weekend coming to an end. I love short days, and thankfully I get off at 2 every Wednesday and …
EditQuest at your Service
The moment you’ve all been waiting for (at least, the moment I’ve been antsy-pants waiting for) has arrived!! EditQuest is now live. There may be a bit of tweaking still that has to be done, but we’ll play along and find that stuff out as we go. For now, the place looks so great I …
Friday Focus
I can honestly say, with pleasure, that I haven’t been so single-minded in a long time. Whereas before I was working, blogging, reading blogs, surfing the Net, etc., now that I still don’t have work and am able to devote time to EditQuest, everything else has easily been put on hold. I don’t read your …
Tagline Tag
Just before starting on the ebook again today, I visited Naomi‘s blog and read her tagline post, which led me to an archived entry where a gazillion people came up with taglines for IttyBiz. It was hilarious, to say the least. And the brainstorming was incredible. That’s when I remembered: Shit. I don’t have a …
Stumbling Toward Fantasy (and self-confidence)
A pile of writing and publishing books sits in front of me on my desk. I’ve scrawled a few notes (more scratched out than not) in my “Publish or Perish” notebook before putting down my pencil and thinking, I can’t do this. I feel like a fraud! How many times have I said that? (How …
All In a Day’s Work, Or, The Freelancing Life
What I love about the freelancing life is that I stay at home. I don’t have to wear makeup, do my hair, or even dress in “appropriate” clothing. I can wear what I want, even if it has stains on it. Needless to say, this fosters a pretty lax attitude in me altogether, and since …
Brainstorming Names
As some of you already know, I’m at the naming stage of getting my fantasy editor biz going, and in that spirit I thought I’d post a few choices I’ve come up with thus far. You’ll see an obvious trend happening, and it’s because specific fantasy-related words do quite well as far as how often …
Fantasy Freak
Now that I have chosen my path of fantasy fiction editor, I’ve been discussing with James what I need to do to develop my new site, among other things. He’s given me lots of homework, which is great. Really. I’m doing it right the first time, I’m ecstatic to say, though I’m finding it extremely …